Image Caption: S48-602-01: Rollei CVIS of a portion of the 1.2-1.3 millionsquare mile Amazonian smoke pall documented by STS-48 photographyduring this mission. This scene is aesthetically awful, but isscientifically meaningful in that it documents a phenomenon thatis still not generally accepted as being "real" by the scientificand other communities. The scale of this burning and the associ-ated long-duration (multi-month) smoke pall, in fairness to thesmallness of most scientific minds, are almost beyond the normalperson's comprehension of reality as seen from the comfort ofivy-colored walls and demigodic textbooks from ages past.